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British civilian schoolgirl Hull, East Yorks 1938-1944 including blitz; student in Cambridge 1944-1945
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REEL 1 Family background and early life in Sheffield 1926-1938. Wartime life as schoolchild in Hull 1938-1944: feelings on outbreak of war; parents' political opinions; evacuation considerations and provision of shelter at Hull school; intensive air raids beginning 1/1941; areas attacked; incendiary bomb in garden; home indoor shelter; pattern of air raids; type of shelters in Hull; reasons for local resentment about bombing; father's work as librarian and in providing emergency centres; effect of air raids on morale; school attendance; disruption of sleep; slackening of air raids mid 1941.
REEL 2 Wartime life as schoolchild in Hull 1939-1944: food availability; coping with blackout; leisure activities; belief in ultimate victory; change in public attitude as to morality of bombing civilians; family's attitude towards Germans and inviting German POWs to house after war. Life in Cambridge 1944-1945: VE day in Cambridge; post war expectations and feelings about 1945 election.
